Juan’s experience includes Dean of the School of Business at East Texas Baptist University, Vice-president for the Risk Management Department in Hibernia National Bank, and Local Area Network (LAN) Administrator for the University of New Orleans.

Juan has a vast international experience working overseas and teaching abroad in Spain, Ecuador, Honduras, and Austria. He has dictated conferences in Madrid, Edinburgh, Seville, Guayaquil, Tegucigalpa, Vienna, and Oxford.

Juan teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and has published research papers in several refereed journals, most recently in the prestigious Oxford Round Table, in Oxford, England. He has co-authored books in international finance. Juan is originally from Honduras, Central America. He is bilingual in Spanish and English.

Teaching areas

Finance

Economics

Business Forecasting

International Finance/Economics

ResearchInterests:

Banking and Financial Institutions

Financial Risk

Monetary Economics

International Finance

Latin-American Financial Economics

Experience

2001-Present

LeTourneau University
Longview, Texas

1999-2001

East Texas Baptist University
Marshall, Texas

1998-99

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

1998-99

Vice President Research Analyst of Hibernia National Bank
New Orleans, Louisiana

1993-97

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

Scholar Work, Business and Consultancy Experience:

International Economics Presenter, Nov. 2014
Presenting at an international economic conference, sponsored by the National University of Honduras.

Fulbright Scholar, June - Nov. 2010
Awarded Prestigious Fulbright grant from the US State Department to research and teach in El Salvador and Central America. Taught in the master finance program at the National University of El Salvador and wrote financial cases covering Central American companies.

United Nations Consultant, Sept. 2009 - Oct. 2011
United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Consultant for Honduras, Central America; working in the United Nation millennium for the poverty eradication. The purpose of this consultancy was the of training 40 students in economic and financial development in the Master of Economics of the National University of Honduras (UNAH), course in September-November 2009. Continued collaboration with UNAH and UNDP in the assessment and grading of final graduation thesis and performance for some students until October 2011.